In a 3,500 m² greenhouse of Michelle van Dijk , co - beginner of the society , Mr. Pleun van Dijk , old age 77 , still regularly has his paw in the soil . When we shake off by , he and Martin Vermeer were meddling pot a new mountain of Ornithogalum . Martin Vermeer and Pleun van Dijk
Kwekerij Michelle Van Dijk is a remarkable caller . Michelle , Pleun ’s daughter and proprietor of the company , spend the summertime months in Svalbard , where she manages a camping ground and coordinate sail to the North Pole . In the winter calendar month she is in the Netherlands and grapple the nursery , but during her absence Pleun is in charge . Not because he has to , but simply because he likes to , and to boot also because a little exercise is good for the consistency .
The exclusivity of the merchandise and the small - scale nature of the company works well for him . Ornithogalum , also known as Star - of - Bethlehem , is a plant that requires instructions . The Germans consult to it as ' cultivator ’s sorrow ' , but the grower of course see the challenge . The pot flora is deliver from tissue paper culture in the summertime calendar month , in plugs , and must then be potted . The plant material total from Israel because , accord to Pleun , it can only be obtain there at this fourth dimension of the class . Delivery aim post in spring and the plant can be post both on the windowsill and in the garden . " It is a beautiful plant with a whitened head , which is why we called it Milky Way . "
Martin ’s colleagues wait on with potting
Pleun not only has had a courteous calling ( amongst others he was chairperson of Royal FloraHolland ) , but also the nursery has had a rich history . In 1927 Pleun ’s father and his brother established glasshouse Dijk van Dijk where they started growing grapes at the same location , in Westland neighborhood , the Netherlands . From the late mid-twenties to the late thirty of the last C there was a good trade in grapes from Dutch soil , which mainly found their way to the UK . This came to an end when after the warfare route transferral with trucks from France and Italy to the Netherlands became more commonplace . They fetch grapes that were a lot cheaper and , thanks to the southern sunlight , also of good quality . " In fact , it was only then that the tomato entered the greenhouse in the Westland , " allege Pleun .
Perhaps a slenderly smaller , but still considerable part of that story Martin Vermeer sleep with all about . From puerility gardening was never far off . After schoolhouse he go into the glasshouse industry and never really came out ever since . He start picking tomatoes and commence an utilization agency that render work force for the Lycopersicon esculentum growers . Once more and more foreign workers arrived – nowadays Polish , Romanian and Bulgarian worker , in his Day Turkish and Maroc - he quite the bureau . Finally he ended up in floriculture and go his potting company with a spouse .
He has been coming to Kwekerij Michelle van Dijk for 20 age and also this year Martin is coming to the saving . In the month of July up to and including February he will spend a day a week in the greenhouse at Pleun ’s to pot his plants . “ We had really difficult years during the crisis , but now there is plenty of study again . Entrepreneurship is like soccer ( in his youth Martin made it to the high unpaid level ): if you have talent , that still does n’t stand for that you will make it , you also have to have the graphic symbol to deport on when it beget difficult . But if the market could continue to develop this manner , that of track would be skillful . "
For more information : Kwekerij Michelle van DijkHoofdlaan 212678 KM De LierThe NetherlandsE:[email protected]http://kwekerij.michellevandijk.nlOppotbedrijf.nlDe Vierde Hoeve 52676 CP MaasdijkThe NetherlandsT : +31 ( 0)6 - 53647897www.oppotbedrijf.nl
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